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Aiden Beadles named Putnam County Defensive Player of the Year
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/23)
Chances are pretty good if you saw South Putnam on defense and an opposing player with the ball, Aiden Beadles was in your frame of vision or about to be in it. The Eagle senior was named the Putnam County Defensive Football Player of the Year in 2022 after amassing 174 total tackles, setting a school record with 100 solo takedowns, and was among the top tacklers in the state...
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Putnam Scanner for Dec. 19, 2023
(Police Logs ~ 12/19/23)
Eight people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Monday • At 8:29 a.m. Timothy J. Parrish, 58, Greencastle, was housed at the jail on a local warrant. Sunday • At 11:30 a.m. Jeremiah H. Barker, 41, Crawfordsville, was booked in for failure to appear...
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What to do with all of the holiday trash
(Local News ~ 12/19/23)
There comes a moment, after the presents have been unwrapped, the lights taken down and the holiday cards tossed aside, when every reveler must decide how to dispose of their festive waste. Millions of Americans wrap, ship and unwrap presents in the month of December. We generate about 25 percent more waste than usual during the holidays, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), equating to an extra one million tons of waste in landfills per week...
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Samantha Lynn Giles
(Obituary ~ 12/19/23)
Samantha Lynn Giles, 27, of Westfield, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023 at her residence. Samantha was born in Greencastle on June 3, 1996, the daughter of Rusty Giles and Amanda (Morlan) Hubbard. She was a 2014 graduate of North Putnam High School. She attended Ivy Tech and was working on a double major in cyber security and software development...
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Diana Jane LaViolette
(Obituary ~ 12/19/23)
Judge Diana Jane (nee Ziegler) LaViolette, born in Sullivan on Aug. 29, 1945, passed away peacefully on Dec. 17, 2023 from a stroke. She was 78 years old. She is survived by her husband, John of Greencastle; her son, Alan of McLean, Va.; daughter Jean (LaViolette) Athey of Elmhurst, Ill.; sister Sue Waddell of Cincinnati, Ohio; and five grandchildren, Archer, Kinsey, Bowen, Gus and Violet...
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